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Caption: Course Catalog - 1879-1880
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College of Literature and Science. 71 the middle of the sixteenth century to the present time. All the really representative writers come into notice, and representative specimens from the writings of each are carefully read in class. Moreover, each student is required each term to read the entire work of some classic author, making choice from a prescribed list. Frequent exercises in writing abstracts or original compositions on themes assigned are also required. The study of Rhetoric occupies the third term. During the second year some four or five of the great masters are studied, their work analyzed, the shaping forces of their times, and their influences upon succeeding times are investigated. L e c tures are given from time to time on Poetry, Epic, Lyric, Dramatic, etc. Writing and reading required as in first year. In the senior year attention is given to Old English : to the Anglo-Saxon, for which the way has been prepared by the study of both English and German ; to Philology; to the Philosophy of English Literature, and to ^Esthetics Essays, Forensics, and orations are required. French and German,—The modern languages taught in this School are confined to one year of French and two years of German. Abundant practical exercises are given both in composition and translation, and the diligent student gains the power to read with ease, scientific and other works in these languages, and may, with a little practice, write and speak them with correctness. A constant attention is also given to the Etymologies common to these languages and the English, and thereby a large advantage is gained by the student in linguistic culture. " He who knows no foreign tongue," said Goethe, " knows nothing of his own." In the first year, the student passes over a complete grammar and reader, acquiring a knowledge of the technicalities of the idiom, and a sufficient vocabulary for the use of books of reference within the course. The second year is devoted to a critical study of the languages and philological analysis, and to a course of select classic reading, composition and conversation. Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy.—For these studies, see School of Mechanical Engineering. Natural Sciences.—See Schools of Chemistry and Natural History. HISTORY AND SOCIAL SCIENCE. The historical studies are designed to afford a general view of the history, social organization and progress of the race. They
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